Traders are ramping up hedges against corporate defaults, with activity in credit derivative markets reaching record levels, ...

Investors looking to protect themselves against corporate defaults are helping drive record trading volumes in credit ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IntercontinentalExchange said on Tuesday that it would acquire Creditex Group Inc, a credit derivatives broker, for $625 million in cash and stock, giving the exchange a foothold ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 -- In what may shape up to be the most expensive payout ever in the credit-default swap market, sellers of insurance against a debt default by Lehman Brothers will have to pay 91.375 ...

Market regulators agreed yesterday to collaborate on the oversight of credit default swaps, the insurance-like derivative contracts that got American International Group into trouble, and said that at ...

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - New York state officials said on Monday they will begin regulating some credit derivatives in January, blaming the estimated $62 trillion market for contributing to the ...

Credit trading desks had a challenging 2023 as government bond prices swung and spreads widened following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March. For growing its single-name credit default swap ...

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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has published standard documentation for the use of recovery lock credit derivative transactions, a move that could help boost trading of the ...

Financial derivatives have greatly enhanced the range of tools available for managing financial risks. Currently, derivatives are widely used to mitigate and reallocate the financial risk related to ...

The credit derivatives market in the past 12 months has been dominated by the launch of various tradable indices. They have proved a phenomenal success, increasing liquidity and transparency and, as a ...

Generally regarded as the most comprehensive report of its kind, the British Bankers Associations most recent survey of the 25 leading dealers in the credit derivatives market finds that the global ...